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词条 Nick Jennings (computer scientist)
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  1. Education and early life

  2. Research and career

      Awards    Fellowships  

  3. Personal life

  4. References

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| caption = Jennings in April 2009
| birth_name = Nicholas Robert Jennings
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1966|12}}
| birth_place = London, England
| residence = Bishop's Waltham{{citation needed|date=March 2014}}
| citizenship =
| nationality =
| fields = {{Plainlist|
  • Artificial intelligence[1]
  • Multi-agent systems[1]
  • Computer science[1]
  • Intelligent agents[1]}}

| workplaces = {{Plainlist|
  • Imperial College
  • University of Southampton}}

| education = Weymouth Grammar School
| alma_mater = {{Plainlist|
  • University of Exeter (BSc)
  • Queen Mary University of London (PhD)}}

| thesis_title = Joint Intentions as a Model of Multi-Agent Cooperation
| thesis_url = https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/256596/
| thesis_year = 1992
| doctoral_advisor = Abe Mamdani[5][1]
| academic_advisors =
| doctoral_students = {{Plainlist|
  • Peyman Faratin[2]}}

| notable_students =
| known_for = Agent-based modelling[3]
Regius Professor of Computer Science
| influences =
| influenced =
| awards = {{Plainlist|
  • IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (1999)
  • AAAI Fellow (2010)}}

| website = {{URL|imperial.ac.uk/people/n.jennings}}
| spouse = Dr. Joanne Jennings{{citation needed|date=March 2014}}}}Nicholas Robert Jennings, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CB|FREng|FIEEE|FIET|FBCS|FRSA|MAE|CEng|CITP}}[4] is the Vice-Provost for Research and Enterprise[5] at Imperial College London, where he also holds a Chair in Artificial Intelligence. He was previously the Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton and Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government on National Security.[6] He is an internationally recognised authority in the areas of artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, agent-based computing and cybersecurity. He has been involved in founding and advising a number of startups including Aerogility,[7] Contact Engine,[8] Crossword Cyber Security,[9] Mentat [10] and Reliance Cyber Science.[11]

Education and early life

Nick was born in London.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}} He grew up on the Isle of Portland in Dorset and attended Weymouth Grammar School and studied for an undergraduate degree in computer science at the University of Exeter. His PhD was from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London.[12][2]

Research and career

Jenning's research is in the broad area of artificial intelligence and covers both the science and the engineering of intelligent systems.[13][14][15][16] Specifically, he has undertaken fundamental research on automated bargaining, mechanism design, trust and reputation, coalition formation, human-agent collectives and crowd sourcing. He has also pioneered the application of multi-agent technology; developing some of the first real-world systems—in domains such as business process management, smart energy systems, sensor networks, disaster response, telecommunications, citizen science and eDefence—and generally advocating the area of agent-oriented software engineering. His most recent project, ORCHID,[17] developed the science of Human-Agent Collectives (HACs) in which humans and software agents collaborate in a seamless manner.

In undertaking this research, he has attracted grant income of over £32M mainly from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).[18] He has published more than 600 articles (with some 350 co-authors[16][1]) and graduated 48{{citation needed|date=March 2014}} PhD students (including two winners and one runner-up of the British Computer Society (BCS)/CPHC Distinguished Dissertation Award.[19] He is recognised as highly cited by Computer Science categories, has over 75,000 citations in Google Scholar,[20] and has an h-index of 116.[21]

He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems and a founding director of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.[22] He has also led teams that have won competitions in the areas of: the Iterated Prisoners' Dilemma,[23] RoboCup (2007), Agent Trust and Reputation (the ART competitions[24] in 2006 and 2007), the Lemonade Stand Game (2009 and 2010), competing marketplaces (2007), and technology-mediated social mobilisation and rapid information gathering (the US Department of State's Tag Challenge in 2012).

From 1988 he was at Queen Mary, University of London, where he was a PhD student, research fellow, lecturer, reader and professor. He was appointed to a chair at the age of 31.

In 1999, he moved to the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton where he was the Deputy Head of Department (Research) (2001-2008), the Associate Dean (Research and Enterprise) for the Faculty of Engineering, Science and Maths (2008-2010), the Head of the Agents, Interaction and Complexity group (2011-2015) and the Head of Department (2015-2016). He was appointed the Regius Professor of Computer Science in 2014.

From 2010 to 2015, he was the UK Government's Chief Scientific Advisor for National Security.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}} In 2016, he moved to Imperial College to be the Vice-Provost (Research and Enterprise), as well as a Professor of Artificial Intelligence.

Awards

He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to computer science and national security science.[25]

  • {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1999}}|event=IJCAI Computers and Thought Award}}{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
  • {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2000}}|event=IEE Achievement Medal for contributions to agent-based computing}}{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
  • {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2003}}|event=ACM Autonomous Agents Research Award for contributions to the field of agent-based computing}}[26]
  • {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2004}}|event=Team leader of winning agent in the 20th Anniversary Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Competitions}}{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
  • {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2007}}|event=Team leader of winner of Trading Agents Competition on Mechanism Design (CAT)}}{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
  • {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2007}}|event=ARGUS II project winner of The Engineer's Large Company / University Collaboration Award}}{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
  • 2007: Int. Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Special Recognition Award for “Intelligent agents: theory and practice” in The Knowledge Engineering Review{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
  • {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2008}}|event=Winner of "Best Industrial Demonstrator" award at International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Systems Conference}}{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
  • {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2009}}|event=Winner of The Engineer Award for Best Aerospace and Defence Project for ALADDIN}}{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
  • {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2010}}|event=Winner of Best Paper Award at International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (out of 685 submissions)}}{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
  • {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2010}}|event=Winner 1st International Competitions on the Lemonade Stand Game}}{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
  • {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2011}}|event=Winner 2nd International Competitions on the Lemonade Stand Game}}{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
  • {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2012}}|event=Winner US State Department's TAG challenge on social mobilisation and rapid information gathering}}{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
  • 2016: IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize (Honourable Mention) for “Theoretical and practical foundations of large-scale agent-based micro-storage in the smart grid” in Journal of AI Research
  • 2016: The Engineer’s “Collaborate to Innovate” Award for the ORCHID project{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
  • 2018: Int. Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Influential Paper Award for “Developing multiagent systems: the Gaia methodology” in ACM Trans. on Software Engineering and Methodology{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}

Fellowships

  • {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2003}}|event=Fellow European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI)}}{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
  • {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2003}}|event=Fellow British Computer Society (FBCS)}}{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
  • {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2004}}|event=Fellow Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET)}}{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
  • {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2005}}|event=Elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)[4]}}
  • {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2006}}|event=Fellow Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)}}{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
  • {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2008}}|event=Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE)}}{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
  • {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2008}}|event=Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (FIEEE)}}{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
  • {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2010}}|event=Fellow Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}}{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
  • {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2012}}|event=Fellow of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)}}{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
  • 2018: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA){{citation needed|date=November 2018}}

Personal life

Jennings is married to Jo and they have two children. He is a keen sportsman: playing cricket for Bishops Waltham Cricket Club,[27] previously managing a youth football team at Waltham Wolves,[28] and being an avid West Ham United Football Club fan.

References

1. ^{{Cite book | doi = 10.1007/978-3-642-24666-1_4| chapter = Abe Mamdani: A Pioneer of Soft Artificial Intelligence| title = Combining Experimentation and Theory| volume = 271| pages = 49| series = Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing| year = 2012| last1 = Dubois | first1 = D. | last2 = Prade | first2 = H. | isbn = 978-3-642-24665-4}}
2. ^1 {{MathGenealogy}}
3. ^{{cite journal|last1=Wooldridge|first1=Michael|last2=Jennings|authorlink1=Michael Wooldridge (computer scientist)|first2=Nicholas R.|title=Intelligent agents: theory and practice|journal=The Knowledge Engineering Review|volume=10|issue=2|year=2009|pages=115|issn=0269-8889|doi=10.1017/S0269888900008122|citeseerx=10.1.1.409.8328}}
4. ^1 {{cite web|title=List of Fellows|url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|website=Raeng.org.uk}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/leadership-and-strategy/provost/vice-provost-research/|title=Vice-Provost (Research and Enterprise)|website=Imperial College London}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bis.gov.uk/go-science/science-in-government/chief-scientific-advisers|title=Chief Scientific Advisers|website=Bis.gov.uk|accessdate=13 November 2018}}
7. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.aerogility.com | title=Aerogility | the future of decision making|website=Arogility.com|accessdate=13 November 2018}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.contactengine.com|title=ContactEngine - Perfect Customer Journeys|website=ContactEngine.com|accessdate=13 November 2018}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.crosswordcybersecurity.com|title=Crossword Cybersecurity|website=Crosswordcybersecurity.com|accessdate=13 November 2018}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ment.at|title=Mentat|website=Mentat}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://relianceacsn.co.uk|title=Reliance acsn - IT Security Experts|website=Relianceacsn.co.uk}}
12. ^1 {{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Nicholas|last=Jennings |title=Joint intentions as a model of multi-agent cooperation in complex dynamic environments |publisher=Queen Mary, University of London |date=1992 |url=https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/256596/|website=soton.ac.uk|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.336484}}|oclc=940336317|authorlink=Nick Jennings (computer scientist)}} {{free access}}
13. ^http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/n.jennings
14. ^{{ACMPortal |name=Nick Jennings}}
15. ^{{Scopus id}}
16. ^1 {{DBLP |name=Nicholas R. Jennings}}
17. ^{{cite web|url=http://orchid.ac.uk|title=The ORCHID Project|website=Orchid.ac.uk}}
18. ^{{cite web|url=http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewPerson.aspx?PersonId=29356|title=Grants on the web|website=Gow.epsrc.ac.uk}}
19. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bcs.org/category/5820|title=Distinguished Dissertations - Awards and competitions - Events - BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT|website=Bcs.org|accessdate=14 November 2018}}
20. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{Google scholar id}}
21. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~palsberg/h-number.html|title=The h Index for Computer Science|website=Cs.ucla.edu|accessdate=14 November 2018}}
22. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ifaamas.org|title=IFAAMAS|website=Ifaamas.org}}
23. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.prisoners-dilemma.com/|title=Prisoner's Dilemma|first=Graham|last=Kendall|website=Prisoners-dilemma.com|accessdate=14 November 2018}}
24. ^{{cite web|url=http://megatron.iiia.csic.es/art-testbed/index.html|title=ART Testbed|website=Megatron.iiia.csic.es}}
25. ^{{London Gazette|issue=61450|supp=y|page=N3|date=30 December 2015}}
26. ^{{cite web|url=http://sigai.acm.org/awards/autonomous_agents_award.html|title=AA Award |website=Sigai.acm.org|accessdate=14 November 2018}}
27. ^{{cite web|url=http://bishopswaltham.play-cricket.com|title=Bishop's Waltham CC|website=Bishopswaltham.play-cricket.com}}
28. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.walthamwolves.co.uk|title=AQS Bamboo Door Beaded Curtain Screen Insect Blind Fly Bug Wooden Assorted Desig,HLS Bedding Classic Charlotte Thomas Amelie Pencil Pleat Ready Made Curtains With Tiebacks Pink,Carousel Home Fabric Grey Polka Dot Penguin Doorstop ~ Decorative Door Stop|website=Walthamwolves.co.uk}}
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